12 Amendments of Rui TAVARES related to 2010/2245(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages innovation as a broad concept involving the whole process from the original idea to the final product, particularly as regards innovation in business models and taking full advantage of European industries’ creative potentialthe creative potential of European industry and the European economy in its multiple and varied forms of entrepreneurship (large firms, SMEs, social economy enterprises and organisations);
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reiterates the importance of acquiring a core of basic competences and a good level of general culture in order to ensure better adaptability to the working environment; stresses that, in this context, language learning is of particular importance;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Views international cooperation in the field of research as essential, but reiterates that exchanges must be based on a balanced partnership so as not to deprive the southern countries of the skills they need for their development;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Expresses its concern at the effects of ‘selective’ immigration policies focusing on the most highly qualified young people;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Deplores the budget cuts in research and education made by several Member States and reiterates the importance of providing adequate public funding in these areas;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to support the development of stronger partnerships betweewithin universities and the business worldinvolving all stakeholders and reaffirms its commitment to the independence of research, particularly scientific research, in the face of the need to ensure a return on investment;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a coordinated effort at all levels of government, local-regional, national and European, together with all the stakeholders, to implement the ‘Innovation Union’, taking into account the educational and cultural dimensions of innovation;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that it is essential to establish programmes specifically to promote scientific and technological culture as part of the measures to promote innovation in all areas;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment concerning open access to publications and data from publicly funded research; encourages it to find the means, including financial means, to ensure that such publications and data are distributed as widely as possible and emphasises the role that Europeana can play in this field;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Affirms the principle of net neutrality and of open standards as the drivers of innovation;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the importance of social innovation in meeting social needs of all kinds - fromand improving working conditions and education to community development and health, so as to promote health and access to education and knowledge, to culture and to health and social services; emphasises the role played by the social economy sector (cooperatives, mutuals, associations and foundations) in social innovation by devising and implementing the means and arrangements to meet needs which are not taken into account by the market and by the conventional forms of entrepreneurship, account being taken of these needs as close as possible to where they occur; emphasises the role also played by the social economy in managerial innovation aimed at achieving, by appropriate means, whether consultative or deliberative, the full participation of all employees in company decisions and management;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the special attention which the Commission is giving to achieving a more even gender balance in the sciences, and calls on it to make specific recommendations for achieving the objective of real gender equality in as short a time as possible;